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It's a gray area.

Coffee shops usually run "open" wireless networks...with the intention of it being a value add service for their clients. People go into coffee shops...purchase coffee, muffins, bagels, etc etc. So the coffee shops make money that way..and offer this service as a value add, and ...

Actually, it would fly in court!
There are no federal laws regulating whether or not one wirelessly connects to someone else's wlan. The only law, an FCC law, states clearly that it is legal to receive any unencrypted wifi signals and data transmitted, but it is absolutely illegal to receive ...

Izzo wrote:

Only a parasite would back up other parasites.
Obviosuly some only read a line or two of a post and decide from that point what to say in response. There is no defending theft, period.

Actually, it would fly in court!
There are no federal laws regulating whether or not one wirelessly connects to someone else's wlan. The only law, an FCC law, states clearly that it is legal to receive any unencrypted wifi signals and data transmitted, but it is absolutely illegal to receive ...

If it's free for customers of the coffee shop why is okay for him to be sitting in his car in the street and using it? can't be blamed on the coffee shop having it unsecured, that's like saying it's okay to steal a car because it's unlocked.

I don't totally disagree with the law, seems like it ...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276720,00.html

HELP!
I need to find out whos been stealing my internet connection (wireless) I live in Northern Michigan in the dang woods and I have someone stealing my internet. I want to leave it open but I have seen usage and see the footprint on my 2Wire ...

I found a sp2 copy and it worked.

I think microsoft got sick of me calling all the time to activate my copy of windows and just set it to let me activate over the internet every time without fail.

Heres a Bug in XP SP2 that people been having issues with involving svchost.exe and 100% CPU ...